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Macarena

Feb 19 2005

Thanks Tuomas for teaching me the
Macarena ritual. For the ones not familiar with it, it’s performed every time
you leave a place, such as a restaurant, taxi etc and check for your gadgets.
As you go pocket by pocket, checking for mobile phone, camera, PDA, wallet, car
keys… To a random person passing by you look like you’re dancing a Macarena.

Thanks to that ritual, performed a little later than optimal, I returned to
the cinema theatre and retrieved my cellphone from a wondering lady who
couldn’t grasp what stupid $&$*&^ would leave a phone on the seat.

Also afterwards we went to a dinner with our finance minister. Not really,
of course, but he was having a seat next to us. He looked a lot younger than on
the tele, and we initially weren’t sure if it’s him. When they started to talk
about Kalousek and “Standa’s
flat”, we were assured it’s him.